LIEBERT, Karl Gösta

LIEBERT, Karl Gösta. Torsby, Göteborgs & Bohus län 11.3.1916 — Sävsjö 17.11.1998. Swedish Indologist and Linguist. Son of Karl L. and Hilda Karlsson, both teachers at elementary school. Matriculation 1935 Gothenburg. Studies at Göteborg (kand.hum. 1935) and Lund (kand.phil. 1939, lic.phil. 1943). Ph.D. 1949 Göteborg. In 1949-55 Docent i sanskrit med jämförande indoeuropeisk språkforskning at Lund, acting Professor 1950 and 1955. In 1951-53 acting Professor at Uppsala and 1955-68 at Göteborg. In 1968-81 ord. Professor of Sanskrit and IE linguistics at Göteborg Uni­versitet. Married 1939 Birgit Hultén (d. 199?). In retirement moved to a small town in Småland, where his sister was living. Among his students was Claes Wennerberg.

GL has been mainly a linguist and as such rather appreciated. Much more criticism he has met in his philological (astronomical evidence in the Veda) and iconographical studies. In connection of the latter he also made a remarkable private collection.